Artist: Dinosaur Feathers
Title: Control
Label: Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Catnr: EJRC109
Genre: Pop
Encoder: LAME 3.100 V0 VBR
Quality: 273 Kbps Avg / 44100 Hz
Time: 39:25
Size: 81.06 MB
Rip Date: 2022-04-05
Str Date: 2014-10-07
URL: http://dinosaurfeathers.bandcamp.com/
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Tracklist:
1. Afternoon Sun 3:43
2. Zeitgeist 3:54
3. When You Coming Out 3:56
4. Fools 5:05
5. For Jonathan 4:44
6. Anything You Want 4:39
7. On My Mind 5:56
8. Impossible 3:28
9. Trip 4:00
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Note:
Brooklyn's Dinosaur Feathers look to Janet Jackson for spiritual guidance on
their groove-laden third album ''Control.''. Insistent drum machines & lithe
pulsing bass lines meet shimmering synths, coked-out horns & soulful vocals,
dragging 1983 pop/R&B kicking & screaming into the new millennium. Master of
ceremonies Greg Sullo hooked up with production gurus Naptimes to update
(downdate?) & amplify what The New York TImes called ''[their] sinisterly
effective pop melodies.'' Dinosaur Feathers first emerged from Brooklyn's sweaty
DIY scene as an irrepressibly upbeat synthesis of indie rock & world music
influences, replete with intricate soaring vocal harmonies. The group then
charted a course from tropical leisure to nervy beach rock via substantial
touring with acts like Built to Spill and Peter Bjorn & John. Most recently,
Sullo committed to an extended stay in Oakland, where he found himself
progressively drawn toward Motown soul & funky R&B - from Smokey to Chaka,
Prince to Janet. His vocal performances here clearly reflect an affinity for
such material, supported by a catalog of disparate secondary influences, from
Scott Walker to Drake. Indebted to the grace & precision of songwriters like
Harry Nilsson & Curtis Mayfield, these songs are the most direct & propulsive
Sullo has committed to tape- err...digital bits. Lyrics deliver meditations on
subjects at once intimate & divine, searching for meaning: ''Do you think it's
true, what they say / We all will die alone? / But maybe that's the only way to
pass into the Unknown.'' Even the most cosmically vexing elements prove
eminently relatable - in the confessional, on the dance floor & in the bedroom.
All things considered, ''Control'' offers up a rejoinder for those curious
enough to ask, ''What have you done for me lately?''